As I sit brainstorming and working in this so-labelled dreary “polar-vortex” weather, I have TEDTalks running in the background. This one in particular by Stefan Sagmeister steadily gained all of my attention. Very interesting how he runs his business, and I also enjoy/agree with his view on integrating retirement years into working years. Click the image below to watch, or listen, and perhaps gain some inspiration as I did.

Having reached the “end” of Netflix (a la “watching everything interesting that is currently available to stream”), an app was recently brought to my attention that has unlocked countless more movies and shows: hola! It was a (very) easily downloadable extension for my Chrome browser, and within minutes we were experiencing an entire new world of movies and shows that are available in other countries. Read a bit more about it on the Business Insider site by clicking this link… or run and download it right now, no real instructions necessary.

That being said, we recently watched Disney’s John Carter, and found it a good source of entertainment for the over-two-hour mark. It is an interesting mix of the movies Gladiator, Stargate, Avatar, I daresay Mission to Mars (though neither of us have seen it, just ‘Mars’ being in the name of it), and one more that we can’t quite put a finger on.